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Public transportation systems across the world have struggled with how to adapt their service to meet social distancing guidelines even with limited service. Some countries, such as South Korea and China, are minimally enforcing social distancing on public transportation; meanwhile Rome’s public transportation system is using large stickers to designate seats that should be left empty, according to The Wall Street Journal. Public transportation capacity will be reduced to 10% in the U.K. for the foreseeable future. But biking and walking are already seeing a 70% increase compared with pre-COVID-19 figures. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called it a “golden age for cycling,” according to The Guardian. … [Read more...] about How social distancing could make public transportation more bike-friendly

The planet of Cosmopolis is spectral and predatory. “I think you acquire information and turn it into something stupendous and awful,” Packer’s wife tells him, not entirely in disapproval. The interaction, even inseparability, between technology and capital is seen as a worthwhile objective. Numbers and charts are “the cold compression of unruly human energies, every sort of yearning and midnight sweat reduced to lucid units in the financial markets”. The yen rises and falls in a thrumming pulse against a backdrop of commerce and crowds, twin forces that “shape every anecdotal moment”. … [Read more...] about Reading Don Delillo’s ‘Cosmopolis’ during social and financial uncertainty